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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Presentation no longer on the schedule!?



On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:45:26AM -0700, Keith Curtis wrote:
> I notice that most of the rest of the Debian Day talks are still there. Am I
> the only one who was affected? Why would you wait to review just one day's
> papers so close to the conference? It would make sense to review all the
> papers at the same time--in December, etc.
> 
> This is an "administrative mistake" that you fixed after I booked my plane
> ticket, and you didn't even tell me about! It was only luck that I even
> noticed! I have gotten a large number of e-mails about debconf, but no mail
> would be 1/100th as important than this one.
> 
> Furthermore, I disagree that this talk is not suitable for Debian Day. I am
> a strong believer in Debian, and I bring up a lot of important issues
> relating to Debian and Ubuntu, a number of which have not been brought up
> before, and there are few issues in Debian as important as this
> relationship, which I believe would stimulate some good conversation, and
> which would therefore be a great way to kick off your conference.
> 
> I can try to cancel my flight and hotel, and just throw away the hours I've
> spent making the presentation and paper. Will you reimburse my expenses in
> that situation?
> 
> Or, you could decide to let me talk. I have made it, and booked my plane
> ticket so why not just let me give it? Here is a link to the paper for my
> talk: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=27. My talk is much more focused than
> this paper which is an early version of these ideas.

Keith,

I should note that as this does look like an item better suited to
in-depth disucssion, you might want to register it as a BoF session?

Regards,
Kevin

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